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One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline
A handsome stranger moves to the small Pennsylvania town of Central Valley, and his name is Chris Brennan. He's applying for a job as a teacher and varsity baseball coach at the local high school, and he looks perfect, on paper. But his name is an alias, his resume is false, and everything about him is a lie. And he has a secret plan – for which he needs a pawn on the baseball team.
Susan Sematov loves her younger son Raz, the quirky and free-spirited pitcher of the team. But Raz's adored father died only a few months ago, and the family is grief-stricken. Secretly, Raz is looking to fill the Daddy-shaped hole in his heart.
Heather Larkin is a struggling single mother who's dedicated to her only son Justin, the quiet rookie on the team. But Justin's shy and reserved nature renders him vulnerable to attention, including that of a new father-figure.
Mindy Kostis is the wife of a busy surgeon and the queen bee of the baseball boosters, where her super-popular son Evan is the star catcher. But she doesn't realize that Evan's sense of entitlement is becoming a full-blown case of affluenza, and after he gets his new BMW, it's impossible to know where he's going – or whom he's spending time with.
The lives of these families revolve around the baseball team – and Chris Brennan. What does he really want? How far will he go to get it? Who among them will survive the lethal jeopardy threatening them, from the shadows?
Enthralling and suspenseful, One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep readers riveted to the shocking end, with killer twists and characters you won't soon forget.
"If you were looking for a mid year replacement for a departing government teacher, you could hardly do better than Chris Brennan. He's clearly prepared to cover the courses in government and criminal justice; he's bright, attractive, and personable; he bonds instantly and effectively with students; and he can even serve as assistant coach of the school's faltering baseball team. Chris is clearly too good to be true, an observation it never occurs to his new colleagues to take seriously. Only Abe Yomes, the gay African-American language-arts teacher, poses any threat, not because he sees through Chris but because he actually grew up in Wyoming, where Chris is pretending to be from. Soon enough, however, Mr. Y is dead, an apparent suicide, and Chris is ready to go ahead with his plan, which requires him to befriend a lonely, vulnerable boy—preferably somebody both in his class and on the baseball team—separate him from his cohort, and turn him into a patsy for a scheme that involves a rented truck and a mountain of ammonium chloride fertilizer. To say more would undermine several whopping surprises Scottoline has in store, but readers can be assured that the author nails the high school milieu, from athletic rivalries to sexting, and that even if they spot every twist coming from a mile away, they're still in for one thrilling ride on the roller coaster." Kirkus Reviews
At first you're not sure where the book is heading but after a few chapters it is clearly unveiled and from there it is action packed, fast paced and gives you a hero to cheer.
Excellent read.
By popcorn317 • Posted in adult angst, audio book, Books, contemporary, crime-fiction, dysfunctional people, family drama, fast-paced, five stars, Mystery, revenge, sports, suspense, teen-angst	• Tagged audio book, baseball team, best friends, blog, crime-fiction, domestic terrorists, five stars, government hate, hero, Lisa Scottoline, listened, mothers, murder, school
Damaged (Rosato and DiNunzio #4) by Lisa Scottoline
Damaged finds Mary DiNunzio, partner at the all-female law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, embroiled in one of her most heartbreaking cases yet. Suing the Philadelphia school district to get help for a middle school boy with emotional issues, Mary ends up becoming the guardian ad litem of her minor client. As she goes up against Nick Machiavelli, her opposing counsel and the dark prince of South Philly lawyers who will use any means necessary to defeat her, she becomes more and more invested in the case—and puts everything, including her engagement to her longtime boyfriend, on the line.
Mary DiNunzio, a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, takes on a heartbreaking case involving a dyslexic fifth grader, Patrick O'Brien, who's bullied at school and is getting no support for his language disability. Patrick, who's being raised by his paternal grandfather, allegedly attacked a school aid with scissors, and now the aid is suing both Patrick and the school board for damages. On the brink of her wedding to college professor Anthony Rotunno, Mary becomes emotionally attached to Patrick, more so than any previous client, and finds herself pitted against a diabolical attorney, Nick Machiavelli (aka the Dark Prince), who's determined to win a settlement, despite the emotional cost to the 10-year-old boy. In her struggle to save Patrick, Mary finds herself fighting her associates, her fiancé, and social services. Tensions mount until the story concludes with a satisfying, unexpected twist.
This was the fourth book in the Rosato & DiNunzio series, and it's an excellent addition to the series although it can certainly be read as a stand-alone novel. Damaged made an excellent addition to my Scottoline collection, and I highly recommend it!
By popcorn317 • Posted in audio book, Books, crime-fiction, family drama, past and present merge, surprise twist	• Tagged audio book, bullying, crime-fiction, dyslexia, foster care, lawyers, Lisa Scottoline, listened, series, surprise twist, wedding
Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline
The unlikely heroine of this Lisa Scottoline thriller (which follows 2006's Dirty Blonde), mousy University of Pennsylvania assistant law professor Natalie "Nat" Greco, finds herself in way over her head when an unintended visit to a minimum-security prison in nearby Chester County puts her in the middle of a deadly uprising — and places her at the center of an elaborate plot that involves an incarcerated crime boss and more than a few improbable conspirators.
Greco's classes at Penn Law — the History of Justice, for example — aren't nearly as well attended as those taught by charismatic and handsome prof Angus Holt. Greco herself is far from immune to Holt's charm, so when he asks her to accompany him to Chester County Correctional Institution to lecture to inmates involved in an externship program, she quickly agrees. But the professors' visit soon turns deadly; a riot erupts, and amid the chaos Greco finds herself alone with a dying correctional officer who has been stabbed through the heart with a metal shank. His last words are a cryptic message to his wife: "It's under the floor." Soon thereafter, Greco is inexplicably set up for the murder of a state trooper and is forced to become a fugitive from justice while she tries to unravel the mystery of the dying man's words.
While not as sexually supercharged or frenetically paced as Dirty Blonde, Daddy's Girl derives its power from the subtle and compelling coming-of-age of protagonist Greco, a sheltered and socially naive woman who, when faced with the ultimate adversity, discovers herself.
I have mixed feelings about this book, though overall positive I did find it a bit daunting to keep up with all of the action., if you can believe that. I mean, it had a prison riot and break out, road blocks , a vice dean on her case, plus family and boyfriend trouble. It wore me out. It's really just an adult Nancy Drew mystery.
The end had a surprise twist and even though it was a bit cliché, it was still perfect.
Not the best but not the worst.
By popcorn317 • Posted in a hint of romance, Books, crime-fiction, dysfunctional people	• Tagged action packed, audio book, blog, busy, fast-paced, Lisa Scottoline, Mystery, stand alone
Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline's Don't Go introduces us to Dr. Mike Scanlon, an army doctor called to serve in Afghanistan, who is acutely aware of the dangers he'll face and the hardships it will bring his wife Chloe and newborn baby. And deep inside, he doesn't think of himself as a hero, but a healer.
However, in an ironic turn of events, as Mike operates on a wounded soldier in a war-torn country, Chloe dies at home in the suburbs, in an apparently freak household accident. Devastated, he returns home to bury her, only to discover that the life he left behind has fallen apart. He's a stranger to his baby girl, and his medical practice has downsized in his absence. Worse, he learns a shocking secret that sends him into a downward spiral.
Grief-stricken, Mike makes decisions upon returning to Afghanistan which will change his life forever. It's not until he comes home for good that he grasps the gravity of his actions, and realizes he must fight the most important battle of his life, to reclaim his life and his daughter. Along the way, he discovers that everything is not as it seems, and he learns ugly truths about those he loves the most, as well as the true meaning of heroism.
Although I rated this book four out of five stars, the narrator wasn't the best and that irks me. A narrator is so important to the way an audio book is perceived and it's like nails on a chalkboard if the narration isn't done correctly, at least to me.
I enjoyed the storyline but thought that some of the characters seemed wishy-washy and flat. I also thought that the story was predictable in parts and so I would skip ahead a minute or two to get passed them.
I like Lisa Scottoline and her writing style but I think she needs to stick to the Rosato & Di Nunzio series because that's where she's excels.
By popcorn317 • Posted in Books	• Tagged affair, audio book, custody battle, drug abuse, infidelity, kitchen accident, Lisa Scottoline, military, pain pills, predictable, surgeon, war
Think Twice (Rosato and Associates #11) by Lisa Scottoline
From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Look Again comes a novel that makes you question the nature of evil: is it born in us or is it bred? Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie's life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novel's shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win;with herself.
Alice, is one twisted twin sister! She buries her sister alive miles from anywhere while taking over her life, bank accounts, AND boyfriend. She seems to be the much smarter twin because who would keep a written record all of your passwords within reach and sight of anyone. Bennie, maybe be the attorney but obviously not very computer savvy.
The story line was predictable and it was just too easy to fool all of Bennie's friends and co-workers. Even her boyfriend didn't know he was in bed with an impersonator.
I'm glad I listened to the book but I hope it's a long time before the author writes another installment involving Alice. And yes, she is so smart she escaped capture yet again!
By popcorn317 • Posted in Books	• Tagged blog, buried alive, Lisa Scottoline, murder, off shore bank accounts, passwords, twins
Betrayed (Rosato & Di Nunzio #2) by Lisa Scottoline
The women of Rosato & Associates return, after the relaunch of the series that started with Accused. This second entry, Betrayed, stars Judy Carrier, who has had the starring role in only one previous Rosato book. WhenBetrayed opens, Judy Carrier finds herself at a crossroads in her life. Her best friend, Mary DiNunzio, has just become partner and is about to become a bride, leaving Judy vaguely out of sorts. She's not jealous, but she's not happy either and she's wondering where her own career and love life are going. To make matters worse, she is rocked to her emotional foundations when she learns that her beloved Aunt Barb has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She races to her aunt's side, and so does Judy's mother, only to find that her aunt is dealing with the sudden death of a friend who had been helping her through chemo. The friend, Iris Juarez, was an undocumented worker at a local farm, but her death doesn't look natural at all, to Judy. Judy begins to investigate, following a path that leads her into an underground world far more dangerous than she ever imagined. Judy has to dig to uncover what happened to Iris, and at the same time unearth the secrets in her own family.
I wasn't a real fan of the Rosato & Di Nunzio series when I started it because of the narrator of the first book I listened to, Accused. Since then I have listened to more and have come to overlook the narrators that bug me and appreciate the ones that do a good job but mostly just appreciate the story lines.
Judy Carrier is front and center in this installment of the series and the book is a stand alone. She is an associate at the all woman law firm run by Bennie Rosato with her best friend, Mary Di Nunzio being Bennie's partner.
Judy feels left out and a bit jealous of Mary. Mary has a great boyfriend, whom she will be marrying soon, while Judy's boyfriend is annoying, rough, takes her for granted and dull. Also Mary is a partner and that makes her Judy's boss and she's not sure how to feel about that.
The events of her Aunt's cancer and then the death of her Aunt's best friend, takes her mind off of herself for awhile but then her life comes crashing down when she decides to dump her boyfriend of many years and finds out the Aunt Barb is really her biological mother.
I love the chemistry between the major characters and the witty dialogue.
It's a great book with strong female characters and I highly recommend it.
By popcorn317 • Posted in Books	• Tagged audio book, biological mother, blog, Cancer, deception, jealousy, Lisa Scottoline, murders, Mystery, Rosato & Di Nunzio series, secret
Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline
Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient. Max can't turn off the mental rituals he needs to perform every fifteen minutes that keep him calm. With the pressure mounting, Max just might reach the breaking point. When the girl is found murdered, Max is nowhere to be found. Worried about Max, Eric goes looking for him and puts himself in danger of being seen as a "person of interest" himself. Next, one of his own staff turns on him in a trumped up charge of sexual harassment. Is this chaos all random? Or is someone systematically trying to destroy Eric's life?
New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes,brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts.
Great story line and had me hooked from the beginning. I thought I knew who the sociopath was but I was wrong and I love it when that happens because that means the story was not as predictable as I had first thought. I had the audio version and the only thing that kept it from getting a five-star rating was the narrator. He was bland and I thought he needed more emotion in his speech.
Great read, be sure and give it a try.
By popcorn317 • Posted in Books	• Tagged attempted murder, audio book, blog, control, divorce, doctors, falsely accused, jealousy, Lisa Scottoline, murder, OCD, person of interest, psychiatry, sociopath, suspect, woman scorned
Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline
Grace Rossi is starting over after a divorce, and a part-time job with a federal appeals court sounds perfect. But she doesn't count on being assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal. Nor does she expect ardor in the court in the form of an affair with the chief judge. Then Grace finds herself investigating a murder, unearthing a secret bank account and following a trail of bribery and judicial corruption that's stumped even the FBI. In no time at all, Grace under fire takes on a whole new meaning.
Another great book from Lisa Scottoline about the judical system from a women's view-point. I had the audio version and the narrator, Kate Burton, did a fantastic job. This book involves the murder of a chief judge with whom Grace just had sex, dealing with coming to grips with parents who are far from perfect, the love of a child, friendships and relationships, and betrayal. It's a murder mystery with a twist and so much more.
By popcorn317 • Posted in Books	• Tagged audio book, betrayal, friendships and relationships, judges, lawyers, Lisa Scottoline, murder, new found love, parents
Courting Trouble (Rosato & Associates #7) by Lisa Scottoline
Anne Murphy thought she'd put her unhappy past a continent behind her when she joined Philadelphia attorney Bennie Rosato's all-woman law firm. Then a friend who's housesitting for Anne is murdered in what's clearly a case of mistaken identity, and Anne realizes that the past has caught up with her and that the only way to outrun it is to catch the killer before he realizes that she's still alive. But how can Anne play dead with a high-profile case just days away from starting? The only way to pull it off is to let her new colleagues in on the secret, which would mean telling them her other secrets, too, including the fact that she's in love with opposing counsel and the probability that her client may not be as innocent as she thought he was.
Action begins early in this book and hardly lets go all the way to the end. It is crime fiction at its finest because there are many twists and turns and heart stopping moments before the identity of the killer comes to light. This is my third venture into the lives of Rosato & Associates and I'm enjoying them more and more. I had the audio version and the narrator was very good.
By popcorn317 • Posted in Books	• Tagged audio book, crime-fiction, drama, lawyers, Lisa Scottoline, murder, Rosato & Associates
Accused (Rosato and DeNunzio #12) by Lisa Scottoline
Mary DiNunzio has just been promoted to partner and is about to take on her most unusual case yet, brought to the firm by a thirteen-year-old genius with a penchant for beekeeping. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene; his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him; most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. The Gardner family is one of the most powerful in the country and Allegra's parents don't believe in reopening the case, so taking it on is risky. But the Rosato & Associates firm can never resist an underdog. Was justice really served all those years ago? It will take a team of unstoppable female lawyers, plus one thirteen-year-old genius, to find out.
I found this audio book at my local library and I totally enjoyed the story line and characters BUT the voice of the narrator got on my nerves when she did the family members and there was a lot of it. I think Mary's family played too big a part in this book and for no good reason but to take up time and space. I don't think I'll read any others in the series.
By popcorn317 • Posted in Books	• Tagged audio book, family, female lawyers, guilt, Lisa Scottoline, murder, pleasant read


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French provocateur Gaspar Noe doesn't do anything halfway so you'd better believe that when the director sets off to make a "dance" movie, he goes all in. As such, the first half of Climax plays like a really well-made dance movie complete with superbly talented dancers, stupendous choreography from up-and-coming superstar Nina McNeely and one of the best dance soundtracks of the year.
Climax opens with the end credits, followed by an introduction to the 20 dancers who are being interviewed for the job of their lives: the chance to be in a music video that could elevate their careers to the next level. The next time we see the dancers is during a jaw-dropping dance sequence that is as good as anything on display in popular dance movies.
While waiting for the bus to pick them up, the group dances, eats and drinks from a punch that is laced with something which seriously distorts the dancers' perception of reality and what begins as a harmless high turns ugly in a heartbeat.
For his descent into hell, Noe's elicits the help of regular cinematographer Benoit Debie who brings his trove of unique camera angles to capture Climax. The opening dance sequence is wonderfully joyous but when the movie takes a turn for the worse, Debie and Noe opt for trademark off-kilter angles, eye-of-god crane shots peppered with POV shots that drop us into the middle of the action. It's a smorgasbord of visuals to create a sensory overload that only adds to the feeling of unease as the movie progresses.
This time around, we're also granted Sofia Boutella as the sole professional actress in the mix of dancers. For the most part, the untested actors do a fine job and it's clear that their roles are basically riffs on themselves but the majority of the heavy emotional lifting is done by Boutella who delivers on both the dramatic side and the physical performance.
I'm still not certain what the point of Climax is. The movie feels like it might be a lash against American pop culture; Noe makes more than one pronouncement about being proudly French, but during their interviews, some of the dancers talk about how going to America would be the ultimate step-up of their career. I'd be interested to, on second viewing, observe if those dancers are the first to go. If you tilt your head and squint a little, one could also make the argument that the movie is a severely twisted meditation on obsession and the cost of success though I feel that these themes are so on the fringe that I may be pulling at strings that might not be there.
As it stands, Climax is both a twisted bit of fun, easily Noe's most accessible film and also a title that will entice back fans who may have given up on the filmmaker after Enter the Void or Love. It also happens to be one of the better dance movies of the last few years and one arthouse fans don't have to be ashamed of liking.


How many times do you forgive a group member who's offended you or outrightly sinned against you? When do you cut them off? Should there be limits on forgiveness, especially for repeat offenders?
Peter was willing to forgive. He just wanted to make sure that he didn't lose count and over-forgive. After all, everything seems to have its limit. Why offer forgiveness when it's undeserved?
Some translations use "seventy times seven," while others use "seventy-seven" times. More often than not, the numbers in the Bible are figurative.
I had a professor in seminary who often said, "I wouldn't bet my life on the numbers in the Bible." He believed the Bible was the inspired word of God. He just understood the symbolic nature of numbers in Scripture.
So if we're not to forgive literally 77 times or 490 times (70 x 7), then what is Jesus saying here? Some have interpreted what 70 and 7 represent. Seven is the Divine number in Scripture. Ten or a multiple of ten points to the exponential, if not infinite, nature of the point.
By using these numbers, Jesus pointed out how forgiveness is both Divine and unending. There is no cutoff at the 78th or 491st offense. Forgiveness should go on and on.
How do we know when we've forgiven? Well, when we no longer hope the offender gets run over by a bus. When we can actually wish them well, then we know we've forgiven.
While the actual act of forgiveness doesn't take much time, getting to the place where we're willing to forgive might take a little longer. God is a genius at forgiveness. He will help you forgive even the unforgiveable.
Who do you need to forgive (again)? What's keeping you from forgiving them?


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import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Properties;

public interface Extension {

	/**
	 * Called once per connection that wants to use the extension
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	 * The properties are the same ones passed in in the URL or arguments to
	 * Driver.connect() or DriverManager.getConnection().
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	 * @param conn the connection for which this extension is being created
	 * @param props configuration values as passed to the connection. Note that
	 * in order to support javax.sql.DataSources, configuration properties specific
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	 * @throws SQLException should be thrown if the the Extension
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	public abstract void init(Connection conn, Properties props) throws SQLException;

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Health Mosquitoes' rapid spread poses threat beyond Zika
Mosquitoes' rapid spread poses threat beyond Zika
LONDON - Sunday, March 13, 2016 17:36 Email Print
An Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen at the Laboratory of Entomology and Ecology of the Dengue Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in this March 6, 2016 file photo. Photo: Reuters/Alvin Baez/Files
Bacteria-laden mosquitoes on Vietnam's island can control Zika spread: scientists
Laos reports local transmission of Zika virus: WHO
Zika can trigger severe neurological disorder: study
Zika virus spreads fear among pregnant Brazilians
As the world focuses on Zika's rapid advance in the Americas, experts warn the virus that originated in Africa is just one of a growing number of continent-jumping diseases carried by mosquitoes threatening swathes of humanity.
The battle against the insects on the streets of Brazil is the latest in an ancient war between humankind and the Culicidae, or mosquito, family which the pests frequently win.
Today, mosquito invaders are turning up with increasing regularity from Washington DC to Strasbourg, challenging the notion that the diseases they carry will remain confined to the tropics, scientists documenting the cases told Reuters.
Ironically, humans have rolled out the red carpet for the invaders by transporting them around the world and providing a trash-strewn urban landscape that suits them to perfection.
The Aedes aegypti species blamed for transmitting Zika breeds in car tires, tin cans, dog bowls and cemetery flower vases. And its females are great at spreading disease as they take multiple bites to satisfy their hunger for the protein in human blood they need to develop their eggs.
Around the world, disease-carrying mosquitoes are advancing at speed, taking viruses such as dengue and Zika, plus a host of lesser-known ills such as chikungunya and St. Louis encephalitis, into new territories from Europe to the Pacific.
"The concern is that we have these species spreading everywhere. Today the focus is on Zika but they can carry many different viruses and pathogens," said Anna-Bella Failloux, head of the department that tracks mosquito viruses at France's Institut Pasteur.
In 2014, there was a large outbreak of chikungunya, which causes fever and joint pains, in the Caribbean, where it had not been seen before, while the same virus sickened Italians in 2007 in a wake-up call for public health officials.
Europe has seen the re-emergence of malaria in Greece for the first time in decades and the appearance of West Nile fever in eastern parts of the continent.
Out in the Atlantic, the Madeira archipelago reported more than 2,000 cases of dengue in 2012, in a sign of the northerly advance of what - at least until Zika - has been the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease.
In the past 40 years, six new invasive mosquito species have become established in Europe, with five arriving since 1990, driven in large part by the international trade in used vehicle tires. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in the tires and they hatch when rain moistens them at their destination.
North American health experts are also racing to keep up, with the first appearance of Aedes japonicus, an invasive mosquito, in western Canada last November and Aedes aegypti found in Washington DC, apparently after spending the winter in sewers or Metro subway stations.
Spread unprecedented
The speed of change in mosquito-borne diseases since the late 1990s has been unprecedented, according to Jolyon Medlock, a medical entomologist at Public Health England, a government agency.
For many experts, the biggest potential threat is Aedes albopictus, otherwise known as the Asian tiger mosquito, which is expanding its range widely and is capable of spreading more than 25 viruses, including Zika.
"There is strong evidence that Aedes albopictus is now out-competing aegypti in some areas and becoming more dominant," said Ralph Harbach, an entomologist at London's Natural History Museum, who has been studying mosquitoes since 1976.
In the United States, Aedes albopictus has been found as far north as Massachusetts and as far west as California. In Europe it has reached Paris and Strasbourg.
Adding to the challenge for public health authorities are the blurred lines between diseases carried by different mosquitoes, as shown by research in Brazil this month that another common mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, may also be able to carry Zika.
Both Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus probably first arrived in the Americas from Africa on slave ships, scientists believe. In the centuries since, commerce has shuttled other species around the world, while air travel has exposed millions of people to new diseases.
"You've got a global movement of mosquitoes and a huge increase in human travel. Humans are moving the pathogens around and the mosquitoes are waiting there to transmit them," said Medlock.
Human incursions into tropical forests have aggravated the problem. Deforestation in Malaysia, for example, is blamed for a steep rise in human cases of a type of malaria usually found in monkeys.
Don't kill the good guys
There have been some victories against mosquitoes, thanks to insecticide-treated bed nets and vaccines against viruses like yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis, as well as a new one for dengue approved in December.
But mosquitoes still kill around 725,000 people a year, mostly due to malaria, or 50 percent more than are killed by other humans, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Climate change adds a further twist. A 2 to 3 degree Celsius rise in temperature can increase the number of people at risk of malaria by 3 to 5 percent, or more than 100 million, according to the World Health Organization.
Hotter weather also speeds up the mosquito breeding cycle from around two weeks at 25 degrees to 7 to 8 days at 28 degrees, according to the Institut Pasteur's Failloux.
So is it time to wipe out mosquitoes altogether?
Aggressive action in the 1950s and 1960s, including the use of the pesticide DDT, certainly pushed them back for a while.
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Neighborhood Arts Center records
Identifier: aarl91-009A
The records of the Neighborhood Arts Center reflect 15 years of the institution's existence in Atlanta, Georgia. The collection is approximately 49 cubic feet, with about half of the collection being financial records of the organization. It is divided into several series: Board of Director's Information; Organizational Correspondence; Funding Sources; Program Activities; Office, Building and Equipment Information; Mailing Lists, Forms, Contracts; Artwork and Artifacts; and Financial Records.
The program files are primarily arranged by subject, and, within subject, chronologically. There are approximately 24 cubic feet of program files. There are approximately 2 cubic feet of photographic material which includes slides, negatives, prints, and galley contact sheets.
Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.). (Organization)
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There are no restrictions on the research use of this collection.
The Neighborhood Arts Center (NAC) was conceived in 1974 by a planning committee for the arts convened by Atlanta, Georgia Mayor Maynard Jackson. The NAC was a multidisciplinary arts center in the visual and performing arts. It was organized as a non-profit, charitable, educational and cultural organization to provide access for the general community to artists and to the visual and performing arts; to provide opportunities for members of the general public to receive instruction and to participate in visual and performing arts; and to enhance the level of appreciation in the Atlanta community for the visual and performing arts generally and for the particular artistic contributions of African, Black American and Third World artists. It's mission also included developing future audiences through children and outreach programs and stimulating creativity in the Atlanta community.
In May, 1975, the Neighborhood Arts Center opened in a facility leased from the Atlanta Board of Education, the old Peter James Bryant Elementary School building located at 252 Georgia Avenue, S.W. Staff was provided by hiring unemployed artists selected through the Comprehensive Employment and Training ACT (CETA) program. The Center was housed in the school building for 9 years when it them moved to the Oddfellows Building on "Sweet Auburn" Avenue in Northeast Atlanta. In 1990, when the organization folded, the offices had moved to Broad Street in downtown Atlanta.
Over the years the NAC housed and nurtured many of Atlanta's most dynamic artists and arts organizations: Just Us Theater Company; Jomandi Productions; The Theatrical Outfit; the African Dance Ensemble; and The Southern Collective of African-American Writers to name a few. It has brought to Atlanta national guest artists such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; Maya Angelou; The National Dance Company of Senegal; the art of Roland Freeman; the puppetry of Akbar Imhotep; and the storytelling of Cynthia Watts. Funding for the Neighborhood Arts Center came from a variety of sources, including the National Endowment for the Arts; the Georgia Council for the Arts and Humanities; the Fund for Southern Communities; and private donations. The NAC was run by a Board of Directors and an Executive Director. Through the years, members and supporters of the Board have included Michael Lomax, Shirley Franklin, Andrew and Jean Young, and Dr. Wendell Whalum. Among some of the original staff and artists in residence are veteran actors Samuel L. Jackson and Bill Nunn; writer Toni Cade Bambara; musician Ojeda Penn; and actress Georgia Allen.
The collection consists of the program files of the Neighborhood Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from the years 1979-1989 and includes a history of the Neighborhood Arts Center, information from the Board of Directors and their meetings, committee reports, profiles of members of the Board of Directors, correspondence, memos, office files, information on leasing space, budgets and funding sources, and information on program activities.
Organized into five subseries:
(1) Board of Director's information
(2) Organizational correspondence
(3) Office, personnel, building and equipment information
(4) Funding sources
(5) Program activities
Forms part of: Neighborhood Arts Center collection, 91-009.
The collection originally consisted of over 60 cubic feet. The decision was made at the beginning of processing to separate financial records from programmatic and organizational records. Therefore, the system devised to classify and number individual folders was uniquely created for this collection. The main record number for this collection is 91-009. The alphabet designation "NAC" in fron of "91-009" designates programmatic records. Financial records are given the plain numbering "91-009." Information in brackets was added by the processing archivist and was not a part of the original folder title.
African American artists -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century
Community arts projects--Georgia--Atlanta.
Community centers--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.
Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.). -- Records and correspondence
Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.).
Inventory of the Neighborhood Arts Center Program Files aarl91-009A aarl91-009A
Neighborhood Arts Center financial records. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History, Fulton County Library System.
Neighborhood Arts Center financial records. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History, Fulton County Library System. https://aafa.galileo.usg.edu/repositories/2/resources/89 Accessed January 17, 2022.


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The Iso Grifo A3/C Bizzarrini was built to destroy the Ferrari 250 GTO
Andrew Willis
If I were to say I was looking at the long, low, purposeful nose of a bright red Italian thoroughbred from the 1960s, you'd probably assume I was standing next to a Ferrari, wouldn't you? Normally you'd be absolutely spot on, but on this occasion you're not. This is the 1965 Bizzarrini Iso Grifo A3/C.
The Bizzarrini Iso Grifo A3/C was at Goodwood to compete in the Graham Hill Trophy at the 77thMembers' Meeting, a race chock-full of stunning closed-cockpit GT cars and prototypes.
It was designed and built to take on the mighty Ferrari GTO at its own game by the gifted, and somewhat hot-headed, Giotto Bizzarrini, a man who based much of his work and engineering flair on the aerodynamics and processes used in the aeronautical industries.
It seems fitting, then, that the man who raced the A3/C that weekend was Steve Brooks, a man who has just this month taken flight in The Silver Spitfire, embarking on a four month round the world trip in one of the world's most iconic aeroplanes.
"The TT has always been the most iconic race at Goodwood. I was looking for something I could race in it with that would be special. I looked at all the different cars, and I don't know why, but they just didn't feel quite special enough".
"And then I heard the story of Bizzarrini, and he was the most fantastic man. And he designed the Ferrari GTO, the finest car ever. Amazing. But then, he fell out with Ferrari's wife, and he went out on his own. A Typically Italian story. Wonderful."
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Steve continues with an infectious and boyish enthusiasm, a quality which shows he's a man who genuinely loves the stories and engineering craft which comes as part and parcel of these machines, and a man who cares about passing these stories on to the next generation.
"He went out on his own and he was obviously quite upset so he built this car with the intention to eat up the Ferrari GTO. It's a very special piece of machinery and it has got some wild engineering in it, way in advance of its time."
Built by Piero Drogo's Carrozzeria Sports Cars in Modena, the A3/C model was the race-prepped version of the Iso Grifo – the other being the luxurious A3/L. What strikes you as you stand over the A3/C is how low, long and wide it is. This race car is big. But one that looks like it should be fast, as all the best do.
The advancement Steve mentions relates to the heavily-tuned 5.3-litre Chevrolet Corvette engine block which was used in all Iso cars. This monstrous power unit was fitted way-back into the middle of the car to compliment and balance its lightweight monocoque. Bizzarrini was so pleased with the results, it is suggested he described the A3/C as the second coming of the GTO. Not only that, he considered it the more refined of the two. He would say that though, wouldn't he?
Steve seems happy to agree with the great man. "It's an early version. 1965. It's one of only two right-hand drive versions in the world. It comes from the Drogo shop, which were the lovely ones. Later he fell out with Drogo and had to move on again. This is all aluminium riveted, and it is just so special".
Who are we to argue? Especially as Steve is a man, and a driver, used to handling some of the world's most iconic machines.
Not only is was he at Goodwood to promote his lengthy Spitfire flight and race a rare Italian GT car, Steve was also here with his original and breath-taking D-Type Jaguar XKD558. Some people have all the fun…
"The D-Type you can be very sideways. It just hangs out beautifully. That's harder to do in the Bizzarrini, it has a lot more momentum behind it. You can certainly feel you're driving Detroit iron around the track. If I had to choose I'd say I prefer racing the D-Type in terms of handling. Malcolm Sayer created I think the most iconic car the UK has ever produced when he developed the D-Type".
Steve is fast to point out a link to all three of his beautiful machines in order not to take the limelight from his beloved Bizzarrini.
"When these guys hone in on the correct performance, you get these incredible shapes that come out. It is real beauty. I think last century was probably the most exciting century on this planet. We saw the arrival of the engine, the car, electricity, the aeroplane, but it wasn't until the '30s, '40s, '50s and '60s where they managed to combine the function that they already had, with the form. For me, seeing the form of the Spitfire, the form of the D-Type, and the form of the Bizzarrini, that is where the specialness comes in".
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Closing the interview as Steve's first practice session behind the wheel of the Iso Grifo A3/C approached, we cautiously asked what his hopes were for the Graham Hill Trophy within the car he always wanted for the event.
"To go racing, and not want to be at the front, it would be a waste of time. That said, it's a tricky place Goodwood, and it's a place that deserves a lot of respect".
Steve's respect for the A3/C paid off, as he came home in a very well deserved 11thplace. We wish him the very best on his Silver Spitfire adventure.
Photography by James Lynch.
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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti la Reyer Venezia Mestre nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2015-2016.

Stagione
La stagione 2015-2016 della Reyer Venezia Mestre sponsorizzata Umana, è la 46ª nel massimo campionato italiano di pallacanestro, la Serie A.

Nell'estate 2015, l'organico della squadra viene rinforzato dagli innesti di Mike Green, Josh Owens e Michael Bramos, che vanno a integrarsi con i protagonisti della precedente annata.
La stagione si apre con la partecipazione alla Supercoppa Italiana al PalaRuffini di Torino dove è eliminata in semifinale il 26 settembre 2015 dall'Olimpia Milano.
In campionato i risultati non sono pari alle attese tanto da provocare l'avvicendamento della guida tecnica, con l'esonero, alla 20ª giornata, di Recalcati, cui subentra l'ex assistente Walter De Raffaele.
Alcuni infortuni come quelli a Perić, Owens e Goss spingono la società a ingaggiare durante la stagione Melvin Ejim, Jeremy Pargo e Ousman Krubally. In Eurocup la Reyer riesce a superare la regular season ma viene eliminata nelle Last 32.
Riesce a qualificarsi come settima alle "Beko Final Eight 2016" ma viene eliminata nei quarti dall'Olimpia di Milano.
La regular season del Campionato vede la squadra concludere al 5º posto, con 16 vittorie e 14 sconfitte, e qualificarsi per i quarti di finale dei playoff scudetto dove elimina 3-1 la Vanoli Cremona. In semifinale, Milano vince la serie per 4-2.

Roster
Aggiornato al 4 gennaio 2017.

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Voci correlate
 Serie A 2015-2016
 Serie A
 Supercoppa 2016
 Coppa Italia di pallacanestro maschile 2016
 Eurocup 2015-2016
 Eurocup 2015-2016 - Last 32

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Home>News Room >Press Releases & Statements>Kansas State University College of Education to Receive AACTE Award for Professional Ethics and Moral Dispositions in Teacher Education
Kansas State University College of Education to Receive AACTE Award for Professional Ethics and Moral Dispositions in Teacher Education
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(Feb. 6, 2012, Washington, D.C.) – The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) will present its 2012 Best Practice Award for Professional Ethics and Moral Dispositions in Teacher Education to Kansas State University's College of Education. The award, which recognizes excellence in a school, college or department of education for illustrative and purposeful attention to professional ethics and moral dispositions in teacher education, will be presented February 19 at AACTE's 64th Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Stemming from AACTE's work through its Task Force on Teacher Education as a Moral Community, the award seeks to identify models of moral and ethical preparation of prospective PK-12 teachers and other school professionals.
"We are honored to receive the Best Practice Award for Professional Ethics and Moral Dispositions in Teacher Education from AACTE," said Michael C. Holen, dean and Skeen Professor in Kansas State's College of Education. "Several decades ago, our faculty and school partners jointly crafted and implemented a conceptual framework emphasizing ethical, caring and respectful behavior as crucial components in our preparation of teachers and other school personnel. We are gratified to see our refinement of these elements of our program recognized by the profession."
The winning applicant was required, among many criteria, to describe the kind of professional educator the program or unit is trying to foster, within the context of education in a democracy; explain how dispositions and professional ethics enact values and relate to knowledge and skills; demonstrate how a clear theory and practice relate to the development of dispositions; and demonstrate the success or impact of the policies and practices on developing professional ethics and moral dispositions in teacher candidates.
Kansas State was selected because of its ability to provide clear coherence among vision, development, and assessment of dispositions across the unit. The review committee commended the College of Education for its in-depth approaches to showing solid integration of the focus on dispositions across categories that guide the program.
Find more information on AACTE's 2012 award winners at www.aacte.org.
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Visions School of Art presently holds two-hour Dublin drawing classes ('Drawing in Colour') on a weekly basis. The session takes place from 11am-1pm each Saturday at the Gallery, The Lantern Centre, 15 Synge St, Dublin 8. These drawing classes are an amalgam of learning basic drawing skills, and learning about how colour works. This second element can be applied not only to Art, but also to any project where colour is used, eg. Interior Design, Flower-arranging, Fashion Design, Crafts, etc.
Who are the Dublin Drawing Classes Suitable For?
These drawing classes are suitable for anybody, whether you are a beginner or a more advanced artist: this is because of the instructor's (Andrew's) attitude towards education; as with every instructed session at Visions, the teaching is learner-centered, meaning that the tutor will take you from how advanced you are at any moment and expand your abilities and knowledge from there. Therefore, though each class will have a specific lesson set for every attending student, the way that you approach the drawing classes will be from your personal level of experience and skills at the beginning of each lesson, with the aim of advancing your capabilities in every session from that point. Because of this, students of ANY level of proficiency can attend.
You can pre-book 6 consecutive lessons for €90 (that's €15 per 2-hour class). If you need to miss one of the Dublin drawing classes during the cycle, we will give you back that class for no extra charge during the following cycle, which will then be €75 for 6-weeks.
If you can't find all the materials here listed before your first class, drawing materials will be provided for your first session. I advise trying K & M Evans on Meetinghouse Lane (just off of Mary St Little, Dublin 7) for all supplies, if you are on a budget.
You will need a box of Faber-Castell Polychromos Colouring Pencils (12-pack). There are also Polychromos soft (chalk) pastels available – do not buy these, needless to say. For the cycle beginning 10th of January 2015, you will also need some A3 (preferably) or A2 sheets of pastel paper. You will need a mid-toned (medium darkness) pastel pad, in various colour temperatures: warm (red, orange or yellow ochre colours), cool (blue, green or purple colours) and neutral (grey); the picture here below shows a good range of Pastel pads (Daler Rowney Murano range) that is perfect for our purposes: I would advise buying the pad in the middle to start off (it is the "Neutral Colours" pad, as opposed to the 'Cool Colours' or 'Warm Colours' ones, also shown). You will also need a good pencil sharpener, preferably one that retains pencil-shavings in a receptacle attached to the sharpener.
To understand more about what Still Life is as an artistic discipline, click here.
To find out more about the Lantern Centre, click here.
To see more of what is on offer at Visions School of Art, click here.
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Hironobu Sakaguchi to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC 2015
February 3, 2015 | By Staff
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The 15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, the premier peer-based awards celebrating game development, will be honoring Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the bestselling Final Fantasy series of games and the founder and president of Mistwalker, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the world of gaming.
The Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony takes place on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 pm at the Moscone Convention Center during the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and will be streamed online and open to all GDC pass holders.
At Square Company, Ltd. (now Square Enix), Sakaguchi served as Director of Planning and Development and created Final Fantasy, a groundbreaking role-playing game that has since gone on to spawn 13 sequels, numerous spinoffs, films and TV series. The famously prolific series was titled Final Fantasy as a reference to Sakaguchi's plan to leave game development, should the title prove unsuccessful, a plan he ultimately decided to scuttle.
In his tenure at Square, he also helped produce a plethora of iconic titles, including Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve, Kingdom Hearts and many others. In 2004, Sakaguchi founded the development house Mistwalker, where he helped with the creation of Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, The Last Story and Terra Battle. Since its initial release in 1987, the Final Fantasy video game series has sold more than 110 million units worldwide and has received seven Guinness World Records.
"Over his illustrious and thriving career, Sakaguchi-san has established some of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time, and helped cement the RPG genre in Japan and around the world. But the gaming world owes an even greater debt to Sakaguchi-san and team for making a compelling game narrative as important to game development as its graphics and sound," said Meggan Scavio, General Manager of all GDC events. "Final Fantasy helped pave the way for game stories that dealt with death, regret and character development in a mature and significant way, and we're proud to honor Sakaguchi-san as a true leader in the space, and an inspired game developer."
Lifetime Achievement recipients are chosen by the Game Developers Choice Awards Advisory Committee, which includes game industry notables such as Doug Lombardi (Valve), Harvey Smith (Arkane), Raph Koster (Independent), Chris Charla (Microsoft) and Erin Robinson (Independent).
The Game Developers Choice and IGF Awards are also excited to reveal the hosts for this year's award ceremonies. Returning as host for the Choice Awards is Tim Schafer, noted game creator and founder of Double Fine Productions.
Tim Schafer has previously hosted the Choice Awards in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. In addition, Capybara Games president and co-founder Nathan Vella (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Super TIME Force, Below) is returning as the host of the Independent Games Festival Awards after his successful hosting stint in 2014.
Prior to founding Double Fine, Tim spent a number of years at LucasArts where he was responsible for several award-winning adventure games, including Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, also co-designing Day of the Tentacle, and working on the seminal The Secret of Monkey Island 1 & 2. At Double Fine, he has helped produce such acclaimed titles as Psychonauts, Brutal Legends, Broken Age and Once Upon a Monster.
IGF Awards host Nathan Vella is the co-founder and president of Toronto-based independent studio Capy (short for Capybara Games), the developer best known for their work on Critter Crunch, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Super TIME Force and Below.
The Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday, March 4th at 6:30 pm at the Moscone Convention Center during the 2015 Game Developers Conference® (GDC) in San Francisco. The ceremony is open to all Game Developers Conference attendees.
The show will be held immediately following the Independent Games Festival Awards, and for the fifth consecutive year, those not attending GDC can watch both sets of awards shows live online via GameSpot.com and Twitch.tv.
For more information about the 15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, please visit the official website.
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The Communications and Mass Media department took to the NASA Space Center in Houston on Oct. 31 as part of the Television and the Space Age class.
"It's one thing to learn about these things through texts and the videos we watched in class, but it's another thing to go there in person and experience it and walk the same grounds as these people we learned about walked," Sara Gonzales, senior, said. "It really just opens up your eyes."
Students toured some of the center's attractions, such as the original mission control rooms and the Saturn 5.
"I learned that there is so much more to NASA than just sending people to the moon," junior Jennifer Sauceda said.
Students saw what NASA does firsthand.
"I saw the mission control room," senior Martha Trevino said. "It was my favorite place because it is part of our history, so it felt amazing being in there. I felt like I was there during that time frame."
Students sat in an Apollo spacecraft that could fit three people and also witnessed a practice drill at the space center.
"It was great to get a hands-on learning experience on what NASA offers," Trevino said.
Sauceda said she went on the trip to gain knowledge of a career possibility.
"I've followed NASA very closely and ASU was gracious enough to give me this opportunity. As an aspiring NASA TV broadcaster, this was something I really wanted to do," Sauceda said.
Television and the Space Age is a special topics upper level class under in the Communications and Mass Media department.


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I'm Karl Anderson. I help run Futel, a free phone company. I'm a software engineer for Duo Security. I make post-apocalyptic training installations with members of Dorkbot PDX.
I use a 12.5" ThinkPad X220 laptop. It's small and it has a full-size mechanical keyboard, and it's underpowered and not too valuable. The important feature is that I can throw it in my backpack and pull it out on the couch or a dark corner of the bar, so it gives me time to work. Nothing special. I love it like I love my bike and my space heater (which are similarly covered with stickers). It's a tool that's very familiar to my hands. It's a mistake to get sentimental about a computer. At work I get to use a sweet large MacBook Pro with a lot of memory so I can do things in several virtual machines at once and talk with my co-workers at the same time. I'm not sentimental about it, not sure why. I lose myself in it as much as I lose myself in my own laptop.
This means that I'm usually lugging around two laptops, a book, a newspaper, and a toolkit, raincoat, and extra layers, because I get around by bike or motorcycle. I sometimes feel like a dork because I don't travel light.
I have some desktop computers and disks to do long-running tasks like serve files, backup my laptop, and scrape the web. I'm just glad that I can put it in the closet and interface with a quiet laptop that doesn't involve a CRT and spinning drives.
I have an obsolete Android phone that I don't use much because it's horribly slow and I don't trust it anyway, but I can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on whatever phone is current these days. The phone doesn't really matter, I mention it because I use it for two-factor authentication. They don't let me use it to authenticate at work, because it's too old, so I use a Yubikey for that. I keep it in my work laptop, so the laptop is basically a dongle. I respect it and treat it securely. I don't respect my phone, it has apps on it that I can't uninstall. It's trying to tell me what I should be thinking about. I should probably get a phone I can root.
When I'm at the office, which is most of my screen time, or working for a while at home, I use a second monitor, a Goldtouch split keyboard, a thin keyboard tray with negative tilt, a GeekDesk sit-stand desk, and a Steelcase chair. A setup that fits me is the most important thing about my hardware, because I have to be careful about RSI. I'm supposedly overdue for carpal tunnel surgery, and a doctor also said I'll want to have my neck sawed open someday, probably because I've crashed into too many things on my bike. I should use my laptop a lot less.
Futel runs on payphones we get off Craigslist, Linksys WRT54G routers and Linksys SIP adapters we get off eBay and thrift stores, and old laptops, as well as cables, conduit, hardware, and concrete, and lots of other scrounged crap. We're cheap. And rented cloud machines, I assume those run on enslaved human brains or something.
The hardware hacking I do mostly runs on the Teensy, an Arduino-compatible platform, and various bent devices and other junk. I know hardly anything about hardware. This is a great time for people like me to mess around with it, because it's so easy to do jump in and start with simple things.
I spend most of my screen time in Emacs, in terminal and editor buffers, whether on my host OS or a virtual box. My personal laptop is an Ubuntu box, which I don't like that much, but I spent too much time in my youth figuring out what OS to run and how I wanted to configure it. Seriously, I used to make my own menu bars, now I wonder why I bothered. My work Mac is set up however my co-workers tell me to, because they're more paranoid and knowledgeable than I am. The Mac constantly annoys me for different reasons than the Ubuntu box, but so long as I the important setup is in a VM, I don't have to worry about it much.
Futel is basically a VoIP service implemented with Asterisk and OpenVPN and a lot of scripts. We use DD-WRT on routers because we can use cheap hardware, and because we can put an OpenVPN client directly on the router. We want to expose as little Asterisk as possible. When we put an Asterisk box directly on the net, kids immediately start trying to break in and make toll calls or resell service or DDOS numbers or whatever they want to do with VoIP services these days. We can't re-flash the SIP boxes, so we're at the mercy of whatever firmware they have, and they're often carrier-locked, so we have to be careful when buying them. It's evil, a lot of energy went into making those chips, and now they're worthless because some defunct corporation didn't want us to use their hardware long after they were dead.
I want to answer this question with some Stanisław Lem scenario. Interacting with computers is the dreamtime, because people are on the other side of that abstract space, and we're letting that space change how we interact with them. It's made out of words, it's poetry. But it's a stupid dream, because the real world is out there too, with real people to interact with.
It's the same nightmare I have once in a while when I'm asleep, where I'm moving in slow motion, or I'm building towers and then the plot changes and I need to be digging ditches. Forget the hardware, I'll fall out of love with it tomorrow. The only feelings I have for the hardware come from how it gets out of my way. I just want to work towards achieving my objectives. In my dreams, I'm twenty-three again, stronger and less wise. I used to be able to hack for seventeen hours straight, and in my dreams I can do that again.


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Logan Paul and KSI Get Into Heated Exchange at L.A. Nightclub (VIDEO)
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Logan Paul and KSI are ramping up the tension ahead of their impending boxing match.
In footage obtained by YouTube account CyberBaited, the social media stars can be seen getting in one another's faces at a Los Angeles nightclub on Wednesday night (June 13). Among the verbal barbs exchanged are things like. "your head is the size of a watermelon" and "I can literally smell your bandana. It smells horrible. No one's laughing at your jokes." Sick burn, bro.
Despite such truly cutting comebacks, the encounter seems to be a marketing ploy to drum up attention for the pair's upcoming fight in Manchester, England on August 25, as both men can be seen visibly smiling.
KSI and Paul's younger brothers, Deji (ComedyShortsGamer) and Jake Paul, will also go head-to-head at the charity match. They're set to hold a press conference on Saturday (June 16) at the L.A. Coliseum to promote the face-off, and have been taunting each other online for several weeks in anticipation.
"You don't wanna miss me roast & toast this man," Paul recently tweeted, while KSI wrote simply: "And it begins."
As previously reported, they've actually signed on to a two-fight deal, and will box again at a U.S. match in February 2019. Watch them go head-to-head in the video below.
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